Word: actionable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soldier try to stop the slaying? One saw what was happening, then shot himself in the foot so he could get out of it?and he was the only U.S. casualty of the day's action. At one point, a private stopped firing his M60 machine gun into a group of 20 people, refused to resume on Calley's orders?so Calley took the gun over and blasted away. Bernhardt said he had refused to take part, but feels guilty because "I just stood back and let it happen." One helicopter pilot, Warrant Officer Hugh Clowers Thompson...
...eyewitnesses willing to talk publicly about the action so far, only one has expressed doubts that a large-scale massacre
...Army's own routine reports on the action at My Lai should have aroused suspicion. As related by the Army's Stars and Stripes. "U.S. infantrymen had killed 128 Communists in a bloody day-long battle." That large an action, rare at the time, normally would call for a detailed report. The former information officer who wrote that report, Lieut. Arthur Dunn, 27, said he was puzzled at so many enemy dead and so few ? only three ? weapons reported found...
...certain critics of America, the masacre will be added evidence that th U.S. is an immoral, unprincipled and racist power; others will insist, with a shade more justice, that the action mocks the pious official rhetoric about saving Asia from Communist aggression in th name of humanity. The most pertinent truth, however, is less accusatory and more difficult for the U.S. to accept: is that Americans as a people have too readily ignored and too little understood the presence of evil in the world...
...emerging at last as fairly colorful in their business hours as well. White House Aide Clark Mollenhoff's attack on opponents of Judge Clement Haynsworth on a Washington television program was so vehement that it caused one of the participants to threaten a libel action. Mollenhoff's repeated fulminations led to a Washington jape about the "Mollenhoff Cocktail-you throw it and it backfires." Deputy Attorney General Richard Kleindienst, an old Goldwater operative, sits up front on the Nixonian stage, riding shotgun for John Mitchell on the Moratorium marchers. Everywhere on TV is Herb Klein, the Administration...